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by jwells89 2y ago
Menubar apps as they exist now haven’t ever really been a consideration for Apple for UX/UI design purposes. For somewhere between the first third and half of OS X’s existence it wasn’t even possible to have persistent third party stat
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Alfred is truly excellent. Not only is it capable of a wide array of things but is built extremely well, being exceptionally lightweight, stable, extensible, and tiny. It’s increasingly rare for software to be even two of those these days,
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Housing being unaffordable is a big one, but in my opinion the bigger aspect (which housing factors into) is long-term financial security (as in, there being little to no risk of financial crisis in the ~20 year timespan of raising a family
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While moving to a suburb had an increase in space as one of its boons, the primary driving force by far was housing costs. Reducing housing costs by half or more and locking that cost in by buying (no rent hikes) has dramatic effects on o
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JSON has its issues, but modern languages including facilities to work with it (fewer dependencies to wrangle is always great) and the way typesafe (de)serializers can be synthesized automatically with a little thoughtfulness in design inst
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Seems like it should be easy enough to offset with exercise though? Like if you’re doing cardio a few days a week you’re not going to suffer too much by chilling in bed a couple evenings.
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On the other hand, the weakness of the onboard compute significantly restricts the Quests’ potential, as does their inability to take a DisplayPort input from a PC (the tether can only serve crappy compressed video). I own a Quest 2 and AVP
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Unpopular opinion maybe, but I think sandboxing and app packaging/distribution should be entirely separate components so the user can mix and match the two freely. Combining both into a single “solution” makes for inconsistency and tro
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On the other hand, I think it’d make total sense to implement an optional mode that blocks programs’ ability to read the clipboard until the user explicitly approves them. I understand why some people might not want that (which is why I’d l
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For ultraportables I think people just want performance to be “good enough” while also not getting hot or spinning up a fan. The M1 Air struck this balance very well – it was no speed demon but wasn’t pokey either, and battery life didn’t s
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> Firefox isn't going to grow as big as it was before Edge came along unless one of the major consumer OS provides a broken default browser on its platform and allows Firefox to run on its platform (iOS fulfills only one of the requ
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It’s possible, but the whole reason Starlink has a userbase is because there’s large areas where traditional telecom companies either never had enough interest to set up infrastructure or let what had already been set up rot. If that were t
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Don’t think I’ve ever encountered this on either AX200 or AX210 cards.
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For whatever it’s worth, newer Intel wifi/bluetooth chipsets (e.g. AX200 or AX210) have consistently worked very well for me under Linux. If your EliteBook has a socketed wifi/BT card, it might be worth buying an Intel card (they’
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Power/battery tuning differing between manufacturers, models, and even specific SKUs within models is perhaps the greatest hurdle to be overcome. It makes baking those settings into distros by default impractical and means there isn’t
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One issue I’ve read that devs of good, no-nonsense, telemetry-free offline-only/first apps face on the Play Store is that they get review-bombed and reported by their less scrupulous counterparts to drive more users to their ad-filled,
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iOS/iPadOS (as well as macOS, tvOS, and visionOS though they’re not relevant in this discussion) also have shockingly good game controller support. All the major controllers (DualSense/DualShock, Xbox, Joycons, Switch Pro, etc) ar
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Definitely. XP/Vista tablets had more weaknesses than strengths, and while Windows 8/10/11 tablets corrected many of the missteps of their predecessors the overall experience still wasn’t as compelling as that of an iPad, des
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Sublime Text fits the “nameless notes” niche for me for similar reasons. It’s super speedy, has plenty of customizability, and has rock solid auto save+restore for unsaved text.
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Yes, for browsers the window for what qualifies as being recent enough to be safe has shrunken dramatically. I’d be on edge about using a browser that hadn’t been updated in even one year… if I had to use a 2+ years outdated browser, I’d ha
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People feeling increasingly crushed by the daily grind to keep one’s head above water is almost certainly a bigger factor. So many people are just one unfortunate event, or even worse, one paycheck away from financial ruin with little in th
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It may not be accurate to paint large amounts of time spent MMOs and the like as a net negative, though. Speaking personally as someone who grew up in a tiny town where there’s nothing for young people to do, WoW and the small nerdy circle
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FWIW, you can do a split-window layout without fullscreen by holding Option while hovering over the green traffic light. Personally I use this (or even resize or rearrange windows) very rarely though. Most of the time if I need two document
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> They copied it a little bit, but it's very mouse oriented (option-click the green zoom button to snap windows to left/right). Moom, which is the tool I prefer, similarly shows a popover when hovering over the green button. Pe
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I think people really just want to see the hole that was created when the Tacoma upsized in 2005 filled with something, because even “midsize” trucks are overkill for a lot of people.
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I wish it were possible to enable a stricter mode that uses something like filesystem overlays to help contain known-unruly software like Adobe Creative Suite. Under this mode, any attempted filesystem reads outside of ~/Library/A
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On Mac, I have yet to find anything that can top the combo of Apple Terminal with the now-defunct Visor/TotalTerminal[0] haxie. Apple Terminal meets my needs well enough and TotalTerminal’s implementation of quake-style dropdown was th
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What I like about the Anki approach is that it’s very conducive to scheduling and timeboxing. It removes a lot of variability from the process of memorizing things, and for me variability/unpredictability is a point of significant fric
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Can’t speak for others but the reason I use Universal Control is because it’s the only option that doesn’t perform badly without a hardwired connection, thanks to its use of an ad-hoc wireless network to send mouse movements and keystrokes
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I do think it’s something specific to some models of Bluetooth headphones. AirPods don’t do it, and while it’s been a while since I’ve used my Sony XM4’s with a Mac I don’t recall them doing it either.

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